(아주경제 신기림 기자) South Korean conglomerate SK Group sends its telecommunications provider SK Telecom to Shanghai Expo.

SK Telecom has recently announced that it had decided to participate in the world’s biggest exhibition event in Shanghai in order to strengthen the image as the global leader in information and communication technology (ICT).

In particular, SK is poised to increase the productivity and expand the convergence business areas in China by providing a variety of services from voice and text message with top quality to various contents and applications and to solution programs.

“SK Telecom hopes that the participation in the Expo can be the opportunity for SK’s ICT to upgrade the leve of communication with people around the globe, to increase the information access and to contribute to bright future of human being and to happiness of the Chinese,” said the spokesperson.

Such a vision clearly aligns with its plan for the Chinese market and current business status in the region.

SK telecom went into the Chinese market in 1989 and then established Beijing branch office in 1991. It currently operates about 100 corporate bodies along with 20 branches in 39 provinces of the continent.

In the field of telecommunications, the company opened its first office for the Chinese market in 1997 and officially established ‘Beijing SK Telecom’ in 2002.

SK Telecom China Holding Co. has governed the whole investment business in the world’s most populous region since 2007.

In the energy and chemical area, the SK Group now produces and supplies a wide range of petroleum-based products such as polyurethane, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, p-xylene and  terephthalic acid.

SK currently occupies 50 percent of the high-quality asphalt import market in China, which entails the significant implication given the project in the eastern costal province of Zhejiang to build the gas pipe across the area.

SK also has a plan to build the factory with annual production of 800,000 ton – ethane in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in central China.

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